From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1688DDF3C for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:44:43 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <155B1079-39C4-4D15-B886-F904C424BC8C@kernel.crashing.org> From: Kumar Gala To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <18541.48403.490671.815858@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Subject: Re: Deputy maintainer for powerpc Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:44:31 -0500 References: <18541.48403.490671.815858@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev list , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , lkml List List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Jul 4, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > I'm going to be on vacation for the next two weeks, and it looks > highly likely that Linus will open the 2.6.27 merge window during that > time, so I'm appointing Ben Herrenschmidt as my deputy maintainer. > During the next two weeks, he'll be the person collecting together any > further powerpc-related commits that need to go upstream, and sending > pull requests to Linus as necessary. > > This is the start of a longer-term transition which will ultimately > result in me handing over the powerpc architecture maintainership to > Ben. Because of various work commitments, this will be a gradual > transition taking probably around 6 months. > > Paul. Ben, Do you have a tree that you'll be using to collect things in? - k